Job summary
Are you interested in delivering our vision for health, care and wellbeing in Sussex?
We are looking for an independent, positive, creative and flexible leader, with an outstanding track record of helping organisations navigate partnerships and form alliances to deliver positive change.
If you have experience of strategic planning in a partnership context working across statutory, voluntary and civic sectors, and someone who can quickly develop an excellent understanding of the partnership activity across health, care and wellbeing, we would like to hear from you!
We want someone who can help us use the resources we have in innovative ways to achieve the best possible outcomes for our communities. This includes the ability to both listen and engage - with communities, the public, and our partners.
The Sussex Health & Care Assembly is the statutory joint committee of Brighton & Hove City Council, East Sussex County Council, West Sussex County Council and the NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board set up to meet the Health & Care Act 2022 requirement for each health and care system to establish an Integrated Care Partnership.
Main duties of the job
As the Independent Chair, you will help us align our partnership activity across our Places (East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton and Hove), to deliver our priorities as part of the Improving Lives Strategy that we share across the region, and further explore further actions we can take together to add maximum value.
You will lead the Assembly in setting a vision, strategy and clear objectives for the Integrated Care Systems (ICS) and holding the four statutory partners to account for delivery of the Improving Lives Together strategy. This will include establishing shared strategic priorities within the Sussex health and care system to tackle population health challenges and enhance services across health and social care, ensuring that the Assembly is responsive to people and communities, and that public, patient and carer voices are embedded in all of its plans and activities.
Paid on a consultancy basis. The Assembly formally meets three times per annum and it is anticipated that this role will require a maximum 10 days per annum. The daily rate will be £600 per day including any travel costs. The arrangement would be for an initial period of 2 years, subject to satisfactory performance, with an annually renewable contract subject to six months notice by either side.
Responsible to:Chief Executive, East Sussex County Council, as the body hosting the Assembly for the partnership.
About us
East Sussex County Council are a local authority who deliver vital community services to over half a million people. As an employer we offer a diverse and rewarding range of career opportunities. Your chosen career pathway can range from work that directly influences the education, social, mental, financial, and physical wellbeing of our residents and shapes the environment within which they live.
As a county, East Sussex is a truly special place to live and work. Located on the south coast of England it has stunning coastline, beautiful countryside and vibrant, inviting and welcoming local communities.
We have a positive learning and development culture, flexible ways of working, a progressive approach to new technologies and competitive employee benefits including health and wellbeing support. Ultimately, whatever your job role, there is an opportunity do work of real value and purpose that helps the communities in which we live.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key tasks:
1. Leads the Assembly in setting a
vision, strategy and clear objectives for the ICS Assembly.
2. Ensure all members of the Assembly
comply with the Nolan Principles of Public Life and meet the Fit and Proper
Persons test.
3. Hold the four statutory partners
to account for delivery of the Improving Lives Together strategy.
4. Oversee the Assembly, across the
ICS, with statutory partners and broader partnerships including the voluntary
sector, to ensure joint planning and delivery, working through potential
conflicts of interest.
5. Ensure the Assembly is responsive
to people and communities and that public, patient and carer voices are
embedded in all of its plans and activities.
6. Ensure the Assembly has (and
delivers) an ambitious strategy for health and care services, which balances
the need to improve longer term health outcomes against short medium term
performance objectives.
7. Support the system through
aligning partners in the implementation of the Improving Lives Together
Strategy, overseeing progress against its objectives.
8. Foster a culture of research,
innovation, learning and continuous improvement, with a particular focus on
quality, safety, access, resident experience, preventative approaches, care
closer to home, and more personalised and streamlined service delivery across
the Sussex system.
9. Act as the guardian of effective
system governance; establishing strong place-based arrangements between the NHS
and local government and dynamic joint working and governance with local
partners, championing subsidiarity of decision making and promoting open and
transparent decision-making processes.
10. Together with the HWB and ICB
Chairs, provides visible leadership in developing a healthy and inclusive
culture for the Sussex health and care system which promotes diversity,
encourages and enables system working and which is reflected and modelled in
their own and the Assemblys behaviour and decision-making.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key tasks:
1. Leads the Assembly in setting a
vision, strategy and clear objectives for the ICS Assembly.
2. Ensure all members of the Assembly
comply with the Nolan Principles of Public Life and meet the Fit and Proper
Persons test.
3. Hold the four statutory partners
to account for delivery of the Improving Lives Together strategy.
4. Oversee the Assembly, across the
ICS, with statutory partners and broader partnerships including the voluntary
sector, to ensure joint planning and delivery, working through potential
conflicts of interest.
5. Ensure the Assembly is responsive
to people and communities and that public, patient and carer voices are
embedded in all of its plans and activities.
6. Ensure the Assembly has (and
delivers) an ambitious strategy for health and care services, which balances
the need to improve longer term health outcomes against short medium term
performance objectives.
7. Support the system through
aligning partners in the implementation of the Improving Lives Together
Strategy, overseeing progress against its objectives.
8. Foster a culture of research,
innovation, learning and continuous improvement, with a particular focus on
quality, safety, access, resident experience, preventative approaches, care
closer to home, and more personalised and streamlined service delivery across
the Sussex system.
9. Act as the guardian of effective
system governance; establishing strong place-based arrangements between the NHS
and local government and dynamic joint working and governance with local
partners, championing subsidiarity of decision making and promoting open and
transparent decision-making processes.
10. Together with the HWB and ICB
Chairs, provides visible leadership in developing a healthy and inclusive
culture for the Sussex health and care system which promotes diversity,
encourages and enables system working and which is reflected and modelled in
their own and the Assemblys behaviour and decision-making.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 1.Must be a resident of, or have close connections to, Sussex.
- 2.Must not be directly or indirectly employed by, or affiliated to, any NHS or local government organisation that operates in Sussex.
- Essential key skills, abilities, knowledge, experience, values and behaviours:
- 3.Experience and standing to command respect within the Sussex Health and Care System.
- 4.Chairing skills: ability to organise, coordinate and follow through on key decisions, manage competing or different views and positively challenge to achieve the desired outcome.
- 5.Communication skills: verbal, written, presentation, media relations sufficient to represent the Assembly with the ability to influence key stakeholders and decision making.
- 6.Ability to be assertive, clear thinking and able to negotiate.
- 7.Ability to identify issues and areas of risk and lead partners to effective resolution and decisions.
- 8.Ability to remain independent and neutral to provide independent and unbiased leadership of the board.
- 9.Experience of working with people operating at a senior level, preferably working within a statutory framework.
- 10.Knowledge of structure and functions of large organisations.
- 11.Knowledge of funding and accountability in the public, independent and voluntary sectors.
- 12.Knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 1.Must be a resident of, or have close connections to, Sussex.
- 2.Must not be directly or indirectly employed by, or affiliated to, any NHS or local government organisation that operates in Sussex.
- Essential key skills, abilities, knowledge, experience, values and behaviours:
- 3.Experience and standing to command respect within the Sussex Health and Care System.
- 4.Chairing skills: ability to organise, coordinate and follow through on key decisions, manage competing or different views and positively challenge to achieve the desired outcome.
- 5.Communication skills: verbal, written, presentation, media relations sufficient to represent the Assembly with the ability to influence key stakeholders and decision making.
- 6.Ability to be assertive, clear thinking and able to negotiate.
- 7.Ability to identify issues and areas of risk and lead partners to effective resolution and decisions.
- 8.Ability to remain independent and neutral to provide independent and unbiased leadership of the board.
- 9.Experience of working with people operating at a senior level, preferably working within a statutory framework.
- 10.Knowledge of structure and functions of large organisations.
- 11.Knowledge of funding and accountability in the public, independent and voluntary sectors.
- 12.Knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
